Notices by ❄️☃️Merry Jerry🎄🌲 (jerry@infosec.exchange), page 6

It has me wondering how much of the open source code we use has also been created using AI?

This may explain some things https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-as-30percent-of-microsoft-code-is-written-by-ai.html

@hacks4pancakes I signed it, though I am not a pro.

@feld @unixjunk1e there are quite a few retailers doing it. I don’t think Temu has much of a choice due to the dramatic increase of all prices.

@unixjunk1e that story didn’t age well. Amazon just said that they were considering it but decided not to display the tariff cost

Sorry, Europe

To my Canadian friends who have an important election next week, I’ll give you some advice my dad once gave me, which has stuck with me all these years and seems very relevant to this situation:

“Jerry” he said
“Don’t fuck it up”

Strobe fried orchid. My favorite!

#bloomscrolling

I think the Chris Krebs situation really underscores that the "infosec industry" and the "infosec community" are very different things.

@blaise I think too many people view their support of a political party like they support a sports team - anything they do is good and right, unfair calls that support their team are just fine, and any call against their team is evidence of bias and is unfair, and there's a weird sense of pride when their team is "winning", even if that winning hurts them.

Cognitive dissonance is a hell of a drug.

@mttaggart I know people are down on cloudflare, but for the reasons described in another thread, it's becoming almost untenable to run a public site that isn't behind a CDN, and sadly cloudflare's price is right for most people, as opposed to Akamai and Fastly, which can get crazy expensive very fast

@GossiTheDog wtf?

There’s been an absolute truckload of new security people signing up today on infosec.exchange. Welcome!

I have a (bad) sinus infection right now and a dentist appointment later today. I am going to see if they’ll let me use that sucker straw to clean out my sinuses

So MITRE’s CVE may be dying. I have been working hard on a replacement. Now you might be skeptical that a shared google sheet isn’t the right approach, but at least it’s affordable, right?

Last batch of orchid pics for the day

Some orchid pics from today

https://www.ft.com/content/20d0678a-41b2-468d-ac10-14ce1eae357b

I find it endlessly amazing that humans survived for hundreds of thousands - perhaps even millions of years without air fryers. How is that possible?

We’re about to find out what happens when China stops buying US bonds. Somehow, I don’t think this was factored into the equation.